. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 335 1-2; temporals, 1-2; eye contained twice in its distance from tip of snout; rostral twice as broad as high; labials eight above, 4 and 5 entering eye; lower labials ten, five in contact with anterior chin shields, which are shorter than the posterior; nasal separated from loreal by prefrontal, which is broadly in contact with second labial. Dark bluish, lighter on sides. A black line through eye; upper labials white. Belly light gray anteriorly to dark bluish grey posteriorly. "Only the type has been se
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. THE HERPETOLOGY OF HISPANIOLA 335 1-2; temporals, 1-2; eye contained twice in its distance from tip of snout; rostral twice as broad as high; labials eight above, 4 and 5 entering eye; lower labials ten, five in contact with anterior chin shields, which are shorter than the posterior; nasal separated from loreal by prefrontal, which is broadly in contact with second labial. Dark bluish, lighter on sides. A black line through eye; upper labials white. Belly light gray anteriorly to dark bluish grey posteriorly. "Only the type has been seen. It is evidently allied to ; Dimensions: Head and body, 704 mm.; tail, 486 mm. The head of this specimen has been twisted and bent, but the pro- portions and relationships of the various scales are perfectly Figure 98.—Uromacer scandax: a, Top of head; b, side of head; c, chin. No. 59438, type, from He Tortue, Haiti. Twice natural size. UROMACEK FRENATUS (Giinther) Figure 99 1865. Ahaetulla frenata Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 15, p. 94, pi. 2, fig. B (type locality ?). 1887. Uromacer inornatus Garman, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, vol. 24, p. 284.— Barbour and Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Conap. Zool., vol. 69, No. 10, p. 358, 1929. 1894. Uromacer frenaius Boulenger, Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, vol. 2, p. 116.—Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 44, art. 2, p. 331, 1914; Zoologica, vol. 11, No. 4, p. Ill, 1930; vol. 19, No. 3, p. 135, 1935; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 82, No. 2, p. 156, 1937.—Dunn, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 7, pp. 42, 44, 1920.—Schmidt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 44, p. 19, 1921.—Cochran, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 66, art. 6, p. 13, 1924; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, p. 54, 1928; Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 185, 1934.—Amaral, Mem. Inst. Butantan, vol. 4, p. 163, 1929. This species seems to be the rarest in point of numbers of the three occupy
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